DUBAI, Oct 6 — Expo Dubai visitors hoping to see the 3-D twin of Michelangelo’s David in all its glory at Italy’s pavilion may be disappointed as only the statue’s head is visible to the public in a display slammed by some Italian media as self-censorship.
“We planned to position David’s statue the way it is now many, many months ago,” commissioner Paolo Glisenti said. “It’s good like this because we can imagine the rest,” said Sophie Lestrat, 44, a French national visiting the Expo. “We don’t know what we can see further down.”Creating the replica using one of the world’s largest 3D printers involved 40 hours of digital scanning of the original 16th-century marble artwork with finishing touches completed by hand, according to the Expo website.
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